Matthew Prorok
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For what? To pressure him to resign? Good luck. To declare him inable to discharge the duties of the office? That's a more difficult process than impeachment, and he's been committing impeachable crimes every day.
November 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
For what? To pressure him to resign? Good luck. To declare him inable to discharge the duties of the office? That's a more difficult process than impeachment, and he's been committing impeachable crimes every day.
Yeah, it's certainly not universal. Steven Miller is a Millennial, and Robert Reich is a Boomer. It's more about trends.
November 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Yeah, it's certainly not universal. Steven Miller is a Millennial, and Robert Reich is a Boomer. It's more about trends.
This is all true, but I still think there's value in saying it should happen. We may not ever get all the truth and reconciliation commissions for corrupt actions going back to at least the 2000 election that we deserve, but we do still deserve them.
November 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is all true, but I still think there's value in saying it should happen. We may not ever get all the truth and reconciliation commissions for corrupt actions going back to at least the 2000 election that we deserve, but we do still deserve them.
That the US could just veto enforcement of the consequences, because it's a permanent member of the Security Council, is a different issue.
November 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
That the US could just veto enforcement of the consequences, because it's a permanent member of the Security Council, is a different issue.
This is the contact information for the International Court of Justice, to which all UN members are parties, not the International Criminal Court. While the ICJ wouldn't handle giving Hegseth consequences, it would handle giving the US consequences.
November 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This is the contact information for the International Court of Justice, to which all UN members are parties, not the International Criminal Court. While the ICJ wouldn't handle giving Hegseth consequences, it would handle giving the US consequences.
I don't know, but I do know that I won't vote for anyone who doesn't commit to doing it.
November 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I don't know, but I do know that I won't vote for anyone who doesn't commit to doing it.
JD Vance is 41, a Millennial two years younger than me, but embraces a politics of grievance that demands suffering from those he thinks are undeserving. But the president, of course, is an elder Boomer who can barely conceive of the idea that other people matter at all.
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
JD Vance is 41, a Millennial two years younger than me, but embraces a politics of grievance that demands suffering from those he thinks are undeserving. But the president, of course, is an elder Boomer who can barely conceive of the idea that other people matter at all.
Often, yes, but not always, as we saw on student loan forgiveness. There's also something of a generational divide (Silent Gen are usually "I want my kids to live better than me," Boomers are "screw you, I got mine," and younger gens are "the future should be better than the past") but not always.
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Often, yes, but not always, as we saw on student loan forgiveness. There's also something of a generational divide (Silent Gen are usually "I want my kids to live better than me," Boomers are "screw you, I got mine," and younger gens are "the future should be better than the past") but not always.
And it's not as though they don't know what kind of guidance to give. Military bases haven't used pennies for around 40 years. They round cash transactions to the nearest 5¢. Businesses could do the same, but you have to tell them that.
November 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
And it's not as though they don't know what kind of guidance to give. Military bases haven't used pennies for around 40 years. They round cash transactions to the nearest 5¢. Businesses could do the same, but you have to tell them that.
It's basically the one thing they're doing that actually should be done, but they're going about it in the most chaotic and terrible way possible. Like, yes, kill the penny, but only if you give businesses guidance on what to do.
November 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
It's basically the one thing they're doing that actually should be done, but they're going about it in the most chaotic and terrible way possible. Like, yes, kill the penny, but only if you give businesses guidance on what to do.
No, it hasn't. This is one of the fundamental differences of mindset that we saw in, for instance, the debate over student loan forgiveness. It's "I suffered, so I want to build a fair world where that doesn't happen to anyone" vs "I suffered, so fairness means everyone else suffers too."
November 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
No, it hasn't. This is one of the fundamental differences of mindset that we saw in, for instance, the debate over student loan forgiveness. It's "I suffered, so I want to build a fair world where that doesn't happen to anyone" vs "I suffered, so fairness means everyone else suffers too."
So you're saying there's only one way out of the fascism trap, and it's not trying to carefully be the right amount of conservative.
November 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
So you're saying there's only one way out of the fascism trap, and it's not trying to carefully be the right amount of conservative.
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
November 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
Reposted by Matthew Prorok
That is the main objection to LLMs. It is the technological extension of James' theory on assholes: A technology of little use, that few people actually want, being pushed on them by people who get mad when you complain about it.
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
That is the main objection to LLMs. It is the technological extension of James' theory on assholes: A technology of little use, that few people actually want, being pushed on them by people who get mad when you complain about it.
Has anything material changed in the way LLMs work? If not, then all the criticisms are still valid.
November 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Has anything material changed in the way LLMs work? If not, then all the criticisms are still valid.
Since I've been going through the backlog for @bizarrebeastsshow.bsky.social, I ran across the curl snake, Suta suta, a favorite of host @sarah-suta.bsky.social.
Curl snake - Wikipedia
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November 26, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Since I've been going through the backlog for @bizarrebeastsshow.bsky.social, I ran across the curl snake, Suta suta, a favorite of host @sarah-suta.bsky.social.
That's basically the wellness programs we already have at every employer. They don't work.
Why Employee Wellness Programs Don’t Work
Company wellness programs are well intended, but they don’t result in cost savings because they aren’t tailored to help the most vulnerable employees, Wharton’s Iwan Barankay explains.…Read More
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November 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
That's basically the wellness programs we already have at every employer. They don't work.
Is it the stance of the New York Times that a mayor or a mayor-elect might reasonably refrain from denouncing unlawful behavior if one of his constituencies would like to break the law?
November 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Is it the stance of the New York Times that a mayor or a mayor-elect might reasonably refrain from denouncing unlawful behavior if one of his constituencies would like to break the law?
So, he was on the side of the law. Just to be clear, he was, in fact, correct that the settlements in occupied territories are illegal.
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
So, he was on the side of the law. Just to be clear, he was, in fact, correct that the settlements in occupied territories are illegal.
Like, for all his faults, Feynman literally talked about this in the Messenger lectures. Literally this.
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Like, for all his faults, Feynman literally talked about this in the Messenger lectures. Literally this.
To be honest, cheesemonger is kind of a dream job for me.
November 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
To be honest, cheesemonger is kind of a dream job for me.
I'm not saying they're all equally good, or equally consistent. I'm just saying that they make these some of the best explored time periods in the franchise, in ways that meaningfully add to it rather than just retreading familiar old ground, even during the "hey, I know that guy" moments.
Darth Maul vs Obi-Wan | Star Wars Rebels | @disneychannel
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November 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I'm not saying they're all equally good, or equally consistent. I'm just saying that they make these some of the best explored time periods in the franchise, in ways that meaningfully add to it rather than just retreading familiar old ground, even during the "hey, I know that guy" moments.